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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1972)
GATES Bv Betty Kelle It’s a rather dreary drizzly morning (Tuesday) and quite a change from the beautiful weather last week but I guess we need this now to make our lawns and flowers grow after getting them all fixed up last week Well. I’m sure we got SOME of it done last week The weather stayed nice over Mothers Day and either a lot of Mothers got taken for a Sunday drive or the fisher men were out in full force as there was a steady stream of traffic on the highway all day. Tuesday evening there was a special meeting held at the Gates City hall for the pur pose of giving the public a chance to voice any complaints about the new water system Present were Ron O’Donnell, water caretaker and council man Tom Wood and the city recorder The meeting ad journed at 8:30 with no one at tending with any complaints Guess most of the problems have been ironed out. The Gates City Council will hold their regular monthly meeting .at the City Hall. The public is welcome The meeting starts at 8 p m. Walt and Toni Thomas and Chris spent Sunday in Albany at the home of Mr and Mrs. Gene Martin. Mrs. Martin is Toni’s sister. This was a family gathering for the day with their mother and brother. Mrs Jessie Ziegler and Elvin Mar low from Vancouver. Wn., an other sister. Mrs. Mildred Den- ion from Mountain Dale, a niece, Mr and Mrs. Bob Bur gess and two sons of Hillsboro, a niece, Mrs. Jeanette Thomp son and daughter, Joy of Bea verton all enjoying a patio dinner. Saturday afternoon visitors at my house were my sister, Carolyn and her friend Dawn Risener from Beaverton While they were here they each took a whirl around the yard a few times with the mower, Louis also here and mowed awhile, with me finishing it up. That’s how I come to get my lawn mowed before it rained. Caro lyn and Dawn also visited with our folks. Hollis and Catherine Turnidge before returning to Beaverton in the evening. The Turnidges took a Sunday drive over along the coast by Pacific City, down through Newport j and home through Corvallis.1 Mrs. Lang Stafford has just I returned from a week's stay' in Eugene. While there she was the gUesfof Mff and Mrs. Howard Stafford. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Arthur, and Mr. and Mrs. Don Leal. Mrs. Leal was the former Mazine Stafford. Mary also visited the Chuck Barnes Saturday the WWI Auxiliary installed their officers for the coming year. In a short time they will have an assortment ‘ of beautiful cards and station- [ ery for their summer project ' In the past they have used the funds from these projects to1 purchase hospital beds, wheel chairs and crutches for those who need them. They are also making tray clothes for veter ans at White City. Sunday Mrs. Lang Stafford was pleasantly surprised when Mr and Mrs. Orville (Coon) Downing and daughter. Ma zine and her husband of Salem stopped by. She had not seen Mazine for about 25 years. Joining Glen and Lola Hen ness at their home on Mother’s Day for dinner were Keith, Doris and Ron Henness of Al bany. Stopping by later in the evening were Clare. Norma Lee and Susan Henness. Friday the Hennesses went to Beaverton to visit another son. Earl and his family. Visitors this past week at the home of Clare and Margar- ' et Rush were Mr. and Mrs. Vern Stewart of Salem. On I Sunday the Rush’s went to Sa lem where son. Lyle and Doro thy took them out to dinner SMILE. YOU RE WITH SAFECO Also with them were Dorothy’s mother. Liz Wright, Allen i Sommers and Kathy. I This month’s bunco party was held at the home of Glen da Roten with Janet Lewis be ing hostess. Others present were Wyoma Baechler, Shar- ron Harrison, Ellen Rust, Kay Syverson. Elydia Smith and Myrtle Donahue. Prizes were won by Elydia for high bunco, Sharon, most games, Janet, least games, and Kay winning the door prize. The Planning Commission met at the City Hall Thursday but no quorum was present so they adjourned until Tuesday evening Gates girls taking part in the Camp Fire Council cere mony Monday evening at the High School auditorium were Suzie Lewis, Judy Roten, Tan ia Brown, Ginger Gabriel and Becky Fuller with parents, Janet Lewis, Glenda Roten. Orville and Gypsy Brown be ing present. Saturday the Sam Biblers attended a track meet held in Gladstone where Sam’s grand daughter from Madras took first place in the mile race. Adrien and Nancy Mills and son from Corvallis were at the Sam Bibler home Sunday for Mother’s Day. Being as how this past Sun day was a holiday I know there are a lot more of you with news but guess 1 was working my phone too hard and it quit working last even- ing so couldn't make any more ' calls. Will try to catch up this next week FOR SALE 1969 Plymouth VIP, 2 dr., Ht. V8, Auto matic, power steering, Vinyl roof. $2,495.00. Terms to suit. North Santiam Fed. Credit Union. Stayton Ph. 769-2144 or Jerry Coffman 859-2552. INSuRAVCI (RE1TB1JCAN) For COUNTY COMMISSIONER Posit.on No. 3 Pd Pol Ad. Pete Villarreal Tres. 916 Moneda N„ Salem PICKING STARTS ABOUT JUNE 15 Drive-Outs Welcome LONE PINE RANCH RICHARD HEATER Phone 769-6694 Rt. 1. Box 306, Stay ton On Kent Ridge OV Mfä£TEVERT T/ME to [and the Smiths * and the Browns and the Olsons! * Yes. you kept us busy I n fact, last year in Pacific Powerland, the average family used more than 12,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. Almost 70% more than the national average And more than 12.000 new families—about 40 000 persons—asked us to supply them with electricity. Most all businesses, industries and farms used more power, too. Here s how we kept up with you. Work on the new power plants took the largest share Then there were major substation additions to enlarge capacity for the Coos Bay. Bend and We were busy in Wyoming last year. too. building a 330,000-kilowatt addition to our Dave Johnston plant near Glenrock With all four units operating. Dave Johnston will be able to produce 750 000 kilowatts of electricity Near Rock Springs Wyoming, we began work on the 1,500.000-kilowatt Jim Bridger plant, in cooperation with Idaho Power And we spent some time developing nearby Jim Bridger coal fields So we II have plenty of low-sulphur coal when we re ready to produce e,ectricity in 1974 We sought ways to protect the environment. Having enough electricity is important to all of us So is having a clean world Along with planning and building new Lakeview areas in Oregon and the Yakima area in Washington A big job was the 232-mile transmission line to connect the Rock Springs area with the Dave Johnston power plant in Wyoming Plus other substantial outlays to improve electric, water, telephone, and steam heat services Where did we get the money we needed? A lot of people, including many of our own employees and customers, invested in $75 000 000 of new Pacific Power mortgage bonds Anri in 3m OO0 new shares of preferred stock. We also plowrxl back some of the com pany's earnings We user! bank borrowings f r short-term needs You know what interest rates are trxtay Rental of this bond money cost us about 8 the preferred stock about 9%. We made some changes. For years, most of our power plants were hydro-electric, making use of the region's rivers But then things changed Most of the feasible water power sites in the region were in use But our customers still needed added supplies of electricity, as you proved again last year. The solution? New thermal plants—those that burn some type of fuel to produce steam to run the generators We decided to fuel those plants from the large, dependable reserves of coal we have in Washington, Wyoming and Montana. Low-sulphur, low-cost coal. We continued building for the future. Jerry Pit+am STRAWBERRY PICKERS WANTED JOE C. BELLO We were busy in 1971 “keeping up with the Joneses That brings us back to 1971. Our busiest year. Insurance on your car, home, business, health, life and everything else you value 5—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, May 18, 1972 At the Pacific Northwest's first major thermal power plant near Centralia. Washington, we completed the first of two 700.000-kilowatt generating units. finish the second this year. - -J» , r * * N I J© " ■' .? plants, our people have been working to meet today s strict environmental standards At Centralia giant electrostatic precipitators were installed to filter the plant s exhaust. Our engineers also designed a system to use water from the Skookumchuck River without harming the river itself At the new Dave Johnston unit we installed a wet scrubber' to do the air-cleaning job by trapping exhaust dust in water droplets Three huge new electrostatic precipitators are already on order for the Jim Bridger plant As you can see, we were busy in 1971. We had to br? Because we thought that, in this case, it made good sense to keep up with the Joneses.'' Questions? Stop by your Pacific P cm » t In addition to a lot of careful planning th.s pollution control equipment is costing a lot of money About $50,000 000' We invested more money than ever. Construction expenditures in 1971 were the largest in our history—$ 119 700000' office and talk them over with us And we II discuss environmental quality oontrol in ttie third in this series of ¿¿^reports on Pacific Pcwer in 1971. \ A Pacific Power
